Chapter 353 The Coalition's Third Line of Defense

The husband's voice still echoed in Caitlin's ears, telling her not to look back no matter what happened.

Even if he died here.

Eddard Stark told his wife and children to flee south.

Escape to Essos.

Escape to the end of the world.

And he's not going, he's a man, a lord, a husband, he's going to fight these White Walkers to the death and defend his home.

"kill!"

"what--"

Now Winterfell has been reduced to a chaotic battlefield. There are screams and screams everywhere, and people's eyes are red.

And when it came to this, Eddard Stark suddenly hesitated, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he gritted his teeth.

"Caitlin"

Then Ed leaned into his wife's ear and added a few words in a low voice.

"what?!"

Then, under Catelyn's unbelievable gaze, Ed gently kissed his wife's forehead.

"Come with me!"

Then the black-brown-haired man raised the big sword in his hand, and returned to the battlefield without hesitation.

boom--

Soon after, with a loud bang, the Hunter Gate fell.

"Roar--"

The army of the dead also poured in from the other side of Winterfell. The kennel and library were gradually occupied by ghouls. The soldiers of the coalition fought hard and gradually retreated to the main castle in the center of Winterfell, where it was easy to defend. Difficult to attack.

And the carriage carrying Lady Catelyn and several young Starks left in a hurry from the South Gate of Winterfell.

Protected by guards loyal to House Stark, the carriage ran wildly along the King's Road to King's Landing.

…

The fierce battle of the night was fleeting.

The sky gradually turned white.

With the fall of Winterfell's main castle, the Allied forces were once again defeated in the Great War.

A part of the soldiers fled to the cellar of Winterfell in a panic, guarding the tomb of the Stark family, hoping that the ancestors of Stark would appear to save them.

And more defeated troops fled from the southern gate of Winterfell and fled along the King's Road to Seven City, where the coalition was in the rear, where a lot of supplies were piled up.

The nobles of the Seven Kingdoms who responded to the king's call to participate in the fight against the White Walkers learned to be smart this time. Seeing that the situation was not right, they turned their heads and fled. They led their respective troops Wuyang and Wuyang to flee on the King's Road. each.

The guardian of the north, Eddard Stark, had already had a desperate desire to live and die with Winterfell, but at the last moment was ordered by His Majesty the King to be tied to a warhorse and forcibly taken away.

The nobles of the Seven Kingdoms ran ahead, but King Robert became the one who fought to the end.

The army retreated and abandoned the castles along the way, and even Winterfell could not be stationed, let alone the castles along the way.

The human coalition has assembled outstanding commanders from the seven countries. In fact, under the collective wisdom, many commanders have learned the lessons of the last defeat, made up for many deficiencies, and made full preparations for the fall of Winterfell.

Many commanders of the coalition forces decided to place the third line of defense of the human legion in a moat comparable to the Great Wall of Despair.

Neck.

However, compared to attacking from the south, capturing Kalim Bay from the north has become much easier.

However, even so, the coalition still hopes to stop the army of the dead through the chaotic waterways and the swamps that can't extricate themselves once they sink in.

They can unite with the Reed family in Greywater. These 'swamp demons' who live in the neck all year round are very familiar with the chaotic waterways and paths in the neck. They may help the coalition to stop the dead army.

Now the commander of the coalition has also seen that it is difficult to defeat the Night King by relying on the strength of the Seven Kingdoms alone.

They have to use some of the mighty power of nature.

The neck is the best line of defense.

And before the Battle of Winterfell.

A red-robed witch from Asshai appeared in the coalition's tent.

She did not hide her identity, and told Robert straightforwardly that she was a believer of the god of fire and shadow, and she served the true king.

She is here to help the coalition defeat the White Walkers, the common enemy of all mankind.

Melisandre confessed her identity and immediately caused an uproar in the hall of the coalition forces.

This was the first time that House Targaryen had sent emissaries to stand before Robert Baratheon since the Usurper Wars, when Robert took the Iron Throne.

Once, though the Iron Throne knew that there was an exiled second prince of House Targaryen on the other side of the Narrow Sea, even crowned king.

And Viserys fled from King's Landing to Dragonstone with his mother, and later fled from Dragonstone to Essos after his mother died. He naturally knew who took their family's world.

However, House Targaryen and House Baratheon have never been in contact with each other, except for sending killers to each other to show respect, there is no other connection.

The Iron Throne is like it doesn't know that there are enemies on the other side of the Narrow Sea. It pretends not to see it, and even the vassals under it secretly hook up with the Targaryen family. They can only be incompetent and furious, and no evidence can be found.

So Melisandre's revealing of her identity naturally caused an uproar.

However, Robert was the current king of the Seven Kingdoms after all, and he did not make it difficult for a woman on the bright side. Perhaps it was also to show his demeanor in front of the ministers.

He could allow Melisandre to stay in the barracks as a Targaryen emissary, but ask her to prove that she has the ability to help the coalition win, and the barracks will not support a useless woman.

Then Melisandre lit a flame in the air, shocking all four.

Her strength is far superior to that of an ordinary male soldier, so she naturally obtained the qualification to stay in the military camp.

It's just that Melisandre is in a state of semi-house arrest, and is naturally not allowed to pass information and walk around casually.

And then Melisandre came up with her own plan to fight the Night King.

"To defeat the Night King, we need to take advantage of the weather, the location, and the people. All three conditions are indispensable."

This was a sentence Viserys said unintentionally. Melisandre felt that this sentence seemed to coincide with the truth. She was surprised and secretly wrote it down, and now it is used here.

"There are only two true gods in the world. Allah R'hllor represents light, heat and life, while his mortal enemy is the god of cold, representing darkness, cold and death."

"For countless years, the winter solstice and summer come are actually endless battles between the King of Light and the God of Cold."

It was cold and windy outside the castle, and although the fireplace was burning with roaring flames, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms in the main hall were all wrapped in thick furs.

And Melisandre was just wearing a thin red robe standing in the center of the hall and talking confidently, plus the means she just showed, naturally people can't ignore it.

She ignored the ugly faces of the three archbishops representing the religions of the seven gods in the hall. These false god believers were powerless.

He also turned a blind eye to the glaring gazes of the northerners who believed in the old gods.

Her words directly negated the Seven Gods and the Old Gods, how could this not make them anxious?

However, the red-robed witch raised her delicate chin slightly, and her expression was neither arrogant nor indifferent, just as if to state a fact.

Standing alone in the hall of Winterfell with the name of the Targaryen family on her head, she actually made the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms silent.